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Apple loses two more dodgy UK court cases against HTC and Samsung

Monday, Jul 9, 2012 - by Pete Railton - 1 Comment

We’ve given up trying to keep up with Apple’s generally dubious claims to get rival products banned off the shelves around the world, but were pleased to discover that their latest attempts …

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Google on SOPA: ‘Don’t Censor The Web’

Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

In  line with the web-wide protests taking place today, Google has issued a strong statement voicing its opposition to the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) in the Senate and the Stop …

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web

The largest internet protest in history sees sites go dark in protest at SOPA laws

Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012Wednesday, Jan 18, 2012 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

Today (Jan 18th) sees what is being billed as ‘the largest internet protest in history’ as websites show their opposition against the proposed Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and its …

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Protests against SOPA grow, as Wikipedia joins January 18th protest with 24 hour shutdown

Tuesday, Jan 17, 2012Monday, Jan 16, 2012 - by mike s - Leave a Comment

Wikipedia has announced that it will be lending its weight to the campaign against two bloody awful internet censorship bills currently being considered in the US.

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How does SOPA work? Infographic explains how websites will be blocked

Tuesday, Jan 17, 2012Monday, Jan 16, 2012 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

Campaigning US site Stop American Censorship has created an infographic explaining how two proposed bills in the US –  PIPA in the Senate and SOPA in the House – are being …

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Android / Apple / Blackberry / business / iPhone / mobile apps / mobiles / Symbian / Windows Mobile

Furious GetJar tells ‘bullying’ Apple: “You’re taking the p*ss”

Monday, Jul 11, 2011Monday, Jul 11, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

Free app distributor GetJar has responded angrily to Apple after lawyers for the tech giant sent them a ‘cease and desist letter‘ over their use of the term ‘app store.’ Head honcho …

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Apple / business

Apple: give it a rest with this ‘App Store’ legal nonsense FFS

Friday, Jul 8, 2011Monday, Aug 1, 2011 - by Lee J. - Leave a Comment

After dismally failing to get Amazon slapped down for having the audacity to use the universally recognised term ‘app store’ for their Android Appstore, Apple’s pugnacious lawyers have decided to pick …

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Apple / business

Arrogant Apple lose Amazon App Store argument

Thursday, Jul 7, 2011Thursday, Jul 7, 2011 - by Tony Fletcher - 1 Comment

Here’s one battle the ever-litigious, cash-heavy Apple failed to win, with a federal judge in the US telling them to bog off over a claim that they owned the term, …

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business

The relentless greed of the Winklevoss twins over their Facebook claim

Tuesday, May 17, 2011 - by Lee J. - Leave a Comment

Already stinking rich before they began, Harvard-educated twins Cameron and Tyler Winklevoss famously claimed that the idea for Facebook was stolen from them by Mark Zuckerberg.

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Apple / business

Apple’s ludicrously long 56-page iTunes legal terms analysed

Monday, May 9, 2011Monday, May 9, 2011 - by Lee J. - Leave a Comment

Anyone looking to install Apple’s iTunes software on their computer is presented with a request to trawl through a ridiculously hefty 56 pages of fine print, detailing every conceivable term …

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Britain’s first libel damages paid over a Twitter entry

Monday, Mar 14, 2011 - by Pete Railton - 2 Comments.

Plaid Cymru candidate Colin Elsbury, the former mayor of Caerphilly, south Wales has become the first Brit to lose a libel case based on a Twitter entry.

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business / web

LimeWire music sharing site gets closed down forever

Thursday, Oct 28, 2010Thursday, Oct 28, 2010 - by Pete Railton - Leave a Comment

To the sound of a million keyboards clicking the ‘uninstall’ button, the popular file-sharing service LimeWire has been shut down.

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Apple / Blackberry / business / Google / iPhone / Microsoft / Symbian / Windows Mobile

Legal tech wars: who’s suing who? Major court cases in the telecoms world

Friday, Oct 8, 2010Friday, Oct 8, 2010 - by Pete Railton - Leave a Comment

With Apple losing a hefty $600 million patent court case against Mirror World and just about every major tech company busy suing, being sued or counter suing,the folks at informationisbeautiful.net …

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open source / web

Forum Board Wars – may the Xen be with you (vBulletin vs XenForo)

Wednesday, Oct 6, 2010Tuesday, Oct 5, 2010 - by Doctor WatsOn - 8 Comments.

The seeds of a real David –v- Goliath battle of the boards have been sown as a big American corporate giant decides to sue a small British start-up – and …

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Apple / iPhone

Pistol-packin’ bullet despatchin’ iPhone defender ends up in jail

Thursday, May 27, 2010Thursday, May 27, 2010 - by Lee J. - 1 Comment

When gun-lovin’ Roger Witter saw two men nick a load of  iPhones from an AT&T store Gresham, Oregon, he decided to take action. Instead of sensibly waiting for the feds …

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